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                                 Image number: RS.9798
                             
                         
                         
                     
                 
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            Laboratory equipment for chemical analysis
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                                ca.1784
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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                                height (drawing): 160mm
width (painting): 196mm
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            width (painting): 196mm
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                                Unpublished plate from the paper “Essai sur une nouvelle maniere d’analiser les substances animales et vegetales”, by Nicolas-Christiern de Thy, Comte de Milly (1728-1784). Showing a chemical furnace, with glass retorts and tubes, for heating and distilling animal and vegetable substances for analytical purposes.  Not signed. 
                            
                            
                        
                            
                            
                            
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